Menu
IKE ECHERUO
Co-Founder, Senior Partner
Mr. Echeruo is Co-Founder and Senior Partner at Constant Works. He is also the founder and
managing partner at Constant Capital, a pan-African investment banking firm. Mr. Echeruo is
responsible for the overall strategic direction and business performance of the companies that
make up the Constant Group. He has over three decades of experience serving as an adviser to
companies on corporate finance transactions, including public offerings, private placements and
mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Echeruo has extensive experience leading conception and execution of complicated
transactions in various African and international markets. He has represented commercial and
investment banks, corporations, private individuals and government agencies in complicated
structured and project finance transactions, including raising equity and debt financing for
projects in Africa. Mr. Echeruo’s experience covers debt, equity, equity-linked and asset-backed
securities, derivatives and structured products. His expertise includes securitizations,
repackagings, multilateral agency funding, export related financing, collateralized bond and loan
offerings, note programmes, commercial paper and depository receipt programmes and
convertible debt and warrant issues.
Mr. Echeruo received law degrees from University of Nigeria and Indiana University. He also
earned an M.B.A. from Indiana University.
Omoniyi Omojola
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Mr. Omojola is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Constant Works. He is an experienced
corporate finance and investment expert with transaction experience in the United States, Latin
America, Australia, Europe and Africa. He is currently directly responsible for the Firm’s
Nigeria Investment Banking and Growth Equity Investing activities. He is Managing Director of
Constant Capital Nigeria.
Mr. Omojola previously worked for several years in top tier global investment and financial
firms, including Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank in New York and Leucadia National
Corporation in Salt Lake City (now Jefferies Financial Group). This broad and extensive range
of experiences has allowed Mr. Omojola to gain expertise in advising equity issuers, debt issuers,
structured finance and derivative issuers as well as listed and private equity and debt and credit
investors. Mr. Omojola was previously responsible for sourcing, evaluating and executing
private equity transactions in an Africa based private equity fund, with a focus on West Africa.
Responsibilities included transaction sourcing, coordination, valuation, structuring, due
diligence, management of external advisors. He evaluated investments in several industries
including oil and gas exploration and services, power generation, agriculture, consumer products,
manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications and logistics At Leucadia, Mr. Omojola
was a member of 3-person deal team responsible for advising senior management on acquisitions
and divestitures of a $6 billion private investment portfolio. Responsibilities included valuation,
recommendation and transactional due diligence (including negotiating legal agreements and
supervising external advisors) of both debt and equity securities of public and private companies.
He evaluated and executed investments in the financial services, natural resources, real estate,
manufacturing, and retail industries worth over $700 million.
Mr. Omojola has gained extensive buy-side and financial advisory experience in Nigeria and the
United States of America of liquid, illiquid, debt, and equity investment and as a result, he is able
to evaluate deals from a comprehensive perspective, evaluating deeply what all sides need and
require to effectively close a transaction. Clients have included listed companies, private entities,
government entities as well as international investors and organizations.
Mr. Omojola received a B.A. from The University of Chicago and earned an M.B.A.
(Distinction) from Harvard Business School.
© Constant Works
Investment Fund ICC 2022